On March 6, Shenzhen Pingshan District People's government and Shenzhen Radio Administration recently signed the framework agreement between Pingshan District People's government and Shenzhen radio administration on strengthening the planning and construction of public mobile communication base stations in Pingshan District, officially determining Pingshan district as the first 5g pilot in Shenzhen to jointly promote the construction of base stations in its jurisdiction, Improve the signal coverage of the public mobile communication network under the jurisdiction.The 5g era is coming, and all terminal manufacturers are working hard to develop and prepare 5g terminal mobile phone devices in order to keep up with the development opportunities of 5g intelligent terminals. Let's take stock of the recent progress of terminal manufacturers in 5g R & D.Hisense

According to Hisense communication reported on April 12, Fang Xueyu, general manager of Hisense communication company, disclosed the plan of Hisense's 5g mobile phone to realize "overtaking in corners" for the first time in an interview with reporters. Fang Xueyu said that Hisense has silently prepared for 3 years in the preparation and research of 5g technology. Since 2015, Hisense has carried out follow-up, research, application and standardization of 5g technology, and joined the imt2020 (5g) promotion group jointly established by the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of science and technology and the national development and Reform Commission to carry out research and analysis of 5g scenarios and technologies. Last year, Hisense deeply participated in the formulation of a number of Nb IOT standard projects of China Communication Standardization Association. At the Barcelona exhibition in Spain at the beginning of this year, Hisense mobile joined the "5g terminal pioneer plan" launched by China Mobile to jointly promote the development and maturity of 5g terminal industry chain.

Based on the pre research technology accumulation and the 5g commercial plan of the operator, Hisense Mobile has formulated its own 5g terminal development and commercial schedule. Fang Xueyu revealed that Hisense will start the development of 5g prototype in the second half of this year, start the commissioning of formal prototype of 5g mobile phone at the beginning of next year, participate in the first round of network access test, and officially launch 5g mobile phone and go on sale together with domestic first-line brands.Hisense h11vivoOn April 11 Beijing time, vivo held an activity with Qualcomm in Shenzhen to show the improvement and basic performance of 5g network and Qualcomm snapdragon 660aie. The demonstration of 5g network is also the first time that vivo and Qualcomm jointly demonstrate new communication technologies in China. In the whole demonstration process, the speed link is tested first. In 5g environment, the low delay is less than 5ms, the uplink rate reaches 162mbps and the downlink rate reaches 1420mbps.

When demonstrating 5g network communication technology at the Xiaolong technology summit, Qualcomm said that Qualcomm has the ability to commercialize 5g network in 2019, and vivo will become the first partners of Qualcomm.OPPO

Recently, there have been two pictures about the practical application of oppo in 5g on the Internet. From the exposure news, oppo has achieved great results. The computer should display 3D video call application scenarios based on 5g network. This development direction is indeed in line with the 5g network emmb (enhanced mobile broadband) scenario. 3GPP originally planned it to realize the online transmission of 3D and VR / AR ultra-high definition resources. At the same time, 3D video call is a further development after the evolution of communication from voice to video. It itself is to bring a better communication experience and has a certain rigid demand.

Oppo demo 5g 3D video call picture source: mobile homeassociation

After Qiao Jian arrived at Lenovo, he successively brought a group of experts from various places into Lenovo, including Jiang Zhen, a former Samsung Communication Research Institute and product R & D executive, who joined Lenovo to be responsible for products; Yu Gao, general manager of Zhejiang Mobile Terminal Company, joined in and was responsible for sales; Zhu Han, general manager of marketing and sales department of Tianyi terminal company, joined in and was responsible for strategic operation; Ma Daojie, general manager of Tianyi terminal company, joined in and was responsible for strategic transformation and business breakthrough. Zhang Yi disclosed to pintu business review that a series of personnel appointments may indicate that Lenovo is laying out 5g business.

ZTEIn April 2018, ZTE said on its official microblog that ZTE and China Mobile had opened their first 5g phone. Recently, ZTE and China Mobile Guangdong company successfully opened a telephone based on 3GPP R15 standard in Guangzhou and officially opened an end-to-end 5g commercial system scale outfield site.Photo source: microblog

HuaweiHuawei's research on 5g commercial chips definitely surpasses other competitors, and this surpassing covers all aspects of networks, terminals and chips. Huawei has released many mobile phones this year, but the real flagship mobile phone is still brewing. According to the release time of mate9 and mate10, mate20 (mate11 renamed mate20) will be released in October this year. However, the design rendering and parameters of mate20 have been deeply extracted. In terms of parameters, Huawei mate20 will be equipped with Kirin 980 processor, which will adopt 7Nm process technology, The performance will be greatly improved.Huawei mate20 may be equipped with 5g chip. According to the news released by Huawei on MWC not long ago, Kirin 980 must support 5g band. I believe many friends have noticed that 5g network has been tested in a small range.

Huawei mate 20 concept rendering exposure image source itbearSamsungIn October 2017, Qualcomm demonstrated the world's first 5g network display prototype, which is the first 5g mobile phone we have seen publicly displayed. Samsung is one of the key players in 5g technology progress. It is developing an end-to-end solution for mobile operators to launch 5g next year. Park Jin Hyo, chief technology officer of SK Telecom, said that Samsung has made great progress in its 5g technology and will launch 5g mobile phones soon.

At present, Samsung will launch exynos 10 in Q1 2019, or it will become Samsung's first flagship SOC integrating 5g baseband. Samsung Galaxy S10 and galaxy note10 may support 5g network. The exynos 9820 chip will also be seen in this mobile phone, that is to say, Samsung will release the first 5g based mobile phone next year, while Huawei also announced that it will release 5g mobile phone in 2019. It seems that the manufacturer has started to play before 5g arrives.Samsung S10 rendering, picture source BaiduApple

With regard to the application of 5g technology by Apple mobile phones, ge yue, Apple's global vice president, expressed her views at the Boao Forum for Asia 2018 annual meeting today. She said that the full application of 5g technology will inevitably bring new challenges to the industrial chain. Apple will ensure that the energy consumption, battery temperature and other important indicators of 5g mobile phones do not go wrong and do not affect the user experience, Will fully embrace 5g technology. Foreign media have analyzed that Apple will not be the first to adopt 5g technology, the first reason is the problem of battery life. In the past, in the 3G and 4G era, the first mobile phones supporting the wireless standard performed poorly in battery life. Apple mobile phone has always adopted the strategy that software and hardware optimization is more important than battery capacity increase in battery life. The first batch of follow-up 5g technology will face great challenges in energy consumption optimization.

Picture source of iPhone 5g concept machine SohuA simple list is compiled to sort out the 5g R & D Progress of terminal manufacturers. Many terminal manufacturers plan to launch smartphones supporting 5g band in 2019

A big challenge for mobile phone manufacturing in 5g era is that 5g adopts array antenna. At present, the popular metal back cover has electromagnetic shielding effect, which can not meet the performance requirements of 5g antenna. In the 5g era, the material of the back cover of high-end smart phones will inevitably turn to glass or ceramics. Glass has great advantages over ceramics in terms of raw materials, processing, post-treatment and price, and the industrial chain is more mature. Whether it is flat glass, 2D or 3D glass, it will benefit from the arrival of 5g era. At present, the difficulty faced by 3D glass is not how to make it, but how to do it with low cost, high yield, good-looking and consumers like it. Therefore, the decoration of 3D glass is also very important